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Organic SEO · Ukraine · 2022

SEO for SmileSchool English School

SmileSchool - SEO for SmileSchool English School

Project Investment

$1,200 - $2,500 CAD / month

Organic SEO retainer (Foundation to Growth), 3-month foundation then month-to-month • Current North SEO pricing, see Buy Services

Project Snapshot

Client: SmileSchool
Industry: Language school
Market: Ukraine
Service: Organic SEO
Year: 2022

The Client and the Challenge

SmileSchool is an English language school in Ukraine. Its site had a problem more serious than weak rankings: it had been infected with malware, which meant Google was warning visitors away and the school's reputation was at risk with every click. Once the infection was dealt with, the site needed the basics it had never had - keyword-driven content, meta tags, a link profile - to compete with the many schools and online platforms ranking for English lessons.

Our Approach

An SEO audit established the state of the site and confirmed the infection. Cleaning the site of viruses came first: removing the injected code, closing the vulnerability that allowed it, updating the platform and plugins, and requesting a review from Google so the warnings were lifted. Only then did optimization make sense. Content management organized the course, level, exam and pricing pages, and keywords were inserted into the texts where the school's pages had been written without any thought for search.

What We Did

SEO audit
Malware removal
Content and keywords
Meta tags
Link building

Meta tags were optimized across the site - titles and descriptions for courses, levels, teachers and locations - and link building began, with links purchased for the site from education and local resources and technical specifications written for the external texts used in those placements. Because a language school's audience searches with clear intent - a level, an exam, a goal such as relocation or business - the content work concentrated on making sure each of those intents had a page that answered it.

Security was made part of the maintenance routine at the end so the school would not repeat the experience.

Results

Clean, optimized school site.

SmileSchool came out with a clean, safe site that Google no longer warned about, content and metadata written for the searches prospective students use, and a link profile under construction - the recovery and the foundation in one engagement.

Notes From the Project

Malware recovery is a common and under-discussed SEO task. Beyond removing the injected code, we checked Search Console for the security issues report, requested a review once the site was clean, scanned every page for hidden spam links and redirects the infection had added, and set up monitoring so a recurrence would be caught in hours rather than months. A site that Google flags as dangerous loses rankings and visitors at once; getting the flag removed was the first result of the project, before any keyword moved.

What This Means for Your Business

Language schools, tutoring centres and training providers in Vancouver depend on the same searches - level, exam, goal - and the same trust. North SEO handles security recovery when needed and builds the content and metadata a school needs to be found by the students it wants.

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